[Gate-users] core dumps

[Marc Chamberland]

Hi Mojca,

My only suggestion would be to make sure that all line endings in the file are in Unix format. 

Marc



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Marc Chamberland, MSc
PhD candidate
Department of Physics
Carleton University
Ottawa (ON)

On 2013-07-04, at 9:06 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> 
>> example_CT/fast> Gate --qt benchmarkFastCT.mac
>> 
>> 
>> -------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
>> 
>> *** G4Exception : DecodingException
>> 
>> issued by : GateMDBFieldDecoder::DecodingException
>> 
>> The definition of the element/material 'Air' is incorrect: The unit
>> found for the density field ('.29 mg/cm3')
>> 
>> is not in the list of autorised units
>> ('g/cm3','g/m3','g/mm3','kg/cm3','kg/m3','kg/mm3','mg/cm3','mg/m3','mg/mm3')
>> for this field.
>> 
>> You should check this definition in the database file.
>> 
>> *** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
>> 
>> -------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------
> 
> I was asked for it off-list, so I wanted to add: MaterialsDatabase
> seems perfectly fine. I have no idea why it gets stuck at Air which is
> 
> Air: d=1.29 mg/cm3 ; n=4 ; state=gas
> +el: name=Nitrogen;   f=0.755268
> +el: name=Oxygen;     f=0.231781
> +el: name=Argon;      f=0.012827
> +el: name=Carbon;     f=0.000124
> 
> after that message I tried to change it to
> 
> Air: d=1 mg/cm3 ; n=4 ; state=gas
> 
> after which it started complaining about
> 
> -------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
> *** G4Exception : DecodingException
>      issued by : GateMDBFieldDecoder::DecodingException
> The definition of the element/material 'Air' is incorrect: The unit
> found for the 1stcomponent's fraction field ('.755268')
> is not in the list of autorised units
> ('','%','perCent','perMillion','perThousand','percent','permillion','perthousand')
> for this field.
> You should check this definition in the database file.
> *** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
> -------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------
> 
> So I changed the definition to
> 
> Air: d=1 mg/cm3 ; n=4 ; state=gas
> +el: name=Nitrogen;   f=75 perCent
> +el: name=Oxygen;     f=23 perCent
> +el: name=Argon;      f=1 perCent
> +el: name=Carbon;     f=1 perCent
> 
> and the next thing I know was
> 
> -------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
> *** G4Exception : DecodingException
>      issued by : GateMDBFieldDecoder::DecodingException
> The definition of the element/material 'Nitrogen' is incorrect: The
> unit found for the atomic number field ('.')
> is not in the list of autorised units ('') for this field.
> You should check this definition in the database file.
> *** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***
> -------- EEEE -------- G4Exception-END --------- EEEE -------
> 
> I replaced
> 
> Nitrogen:   S= N   ; Z=  7. ; A=  14.01  g/mole
> 
> with
> 
> Nitrogen:   S= N   ; Z=  7 ; A=  14.01  g/mole
> 
> and it started complaining about ".01 g/mole" is not a unit. Changing it to
> 
> Nitrogen:   S= N   ; Z=  7 ; A=  14  g/mole
> 
> succeeded, but started complaining about Oxygen.
> 
> It seems that something is wrong with the parser. But the curious
> thing is that this is only a problems with --qt. I'm not sure if the
> non-qt problems just hangs earlier in the process.
> 
> Mojca
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